Editing German reunification (section)

===German Unity Day===
[[File:2014-10-03 Tag der Deutschen Einheit, (108) Luftballons vom Freundeskreis Hannover für Angela Merkel und Joachim Gauck,, (01).jpg|thumb|Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] and President [[Joachim Gauck]] at the ''Bürgerfest'' (German Unity Day festivities) in [[Hannover]] in 2014]]
To commemorate the day that marks the official unification of the former East and West Germany in 1990, 3 October has since then been the official national holiday of Germany, the [[German Unity Day]] ({{langx|de|Tag der deutschen Einheit|label=none}}). It replaced the previous national holiday held in West Germany on 17 June commemorating the [[East German uprising of 1953]] and the national holiday on 7 October in the GDR, that commemorated the [[Republic Day (East Germany)|Foundation of the East German state]].<ref name="London" /> An alternative date to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down, 9 November (1989), which coincided with the anniversary of the [[German Revolution of 1918–19|proclamation of the German Republic]] in 1918, and the defeat of [[Beer Hall Putsch|Hitler's first coup]] in 1923. However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led [[pogrom]]s against Jews in 1938 (''[[Kristallnacht]]''), so the day was considered inappropriate for a national holiday.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kosmidou |first=Eleftheria Rania |title=European civil war films: memory, conflict, and nostalgia |date=2013 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-52320-2 |series=Routledge advances in film studies |location=New York, NY |pages=9–10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fürstenau |first=Marcel |date=9 November 2004 |title=Schicksalstag der Deutschen |url=https://www.dw.com/de/schicksalstag-der-deutschen/a-1389975 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505222902/http://www.dw.de/schicksalstag-der-deutschen/a-1389975 |archive-date=5 May 2015 |access-date=17 May 2023 |website=[[Deutsche Welle]] |language=de}}</ref>